Visiting the Museum

To fully experience the Noah Webster House and museum, we recommend that you reserve an hour or two for your visit.

Guests have the opportunity to enjoy an orientation film (Noah Webster: Schoolmaster of America) in our 19th-century schoolhouse theater. You can also explore our exhibit Noah Webster: Defining American; after that, enjoy a tour of Webster’s birthplace with one of our experienced guides or via our new tablet tour. Family groups will not want to miss Noah’s Discovery Learning Space – three rooms of fun hands-on activities that explore young Webster’s life and 18th-century America.

Save some time for one of our changing exhibits and our gift shop featuring Noah Webster and West Hartford related items. And if you have time in town, visit West Hartford Center which features Blue Back Square (named after Webster’s Blue-Backed Speller) and Webster Walk.

Directions

We are located one mile north of I-84 from exit 41 east or west; follow the signs to the Noah Webster House. Our address is 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107 USA

Historic House Tours

Noah Webster's ca. 1750 house is available to visitors by guided tour on a walk-in basis during the museum's visitor hours (seven days per week from 1-4 p.m. See the information bar to the left). Guide-led tours approximately 45 to 60 minutes, while our new tablet tour allows visitors to take a tour at their own pace. Noah Webster's house consists of four period-furnished rooms in two floors.

We do our best to accommodate everyone. The second story of the historic house is not handicapped accessible, but we do offer a tablet tour that allows everyone to discover it from anywhere in the building. In addition, the tablet tour offers closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing, as well as a Spanish translation. We also offer seating during the house tour and hands-on opportunities for those with low vision or blindness.

Hours

We are open 7 days a week from 1pm - 4pm

For a complete experience, visitors should arrive before 3 p.m., as tours take about an hour.

We are closed on major holidays (New Year's Eve and Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Eve and Day) as well as the first 5 weekdays of January. The days we are open are subject to change, so please call ahead to verify that we are open.